Introducing TS Server Drain Mode

Terminal Services Server Drain Mode allows an administrator to prevent new logins to a terminal server. It does allow current users to stay connected and even allows disconnected sessions to re-connect and continue working. The Drain Mode feature also works with the new Terminal Services Session Broker Load Balancing.

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Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation

SPEC is a non-profit organization that puts together benchmarks on a variety of products and services.  Currently they have a number of test areas:

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Messaging Records Management

Messaging Records Management (MRM) can be used to define polices for retention on specific folders.  You can also target an MRM policy to a specific group.  There is a 10 minute video that explains MRM on the Exchange Team Blog:

http://msexchangeteam.com/videos/9/general/entry442782.aspx

2 Load Evaluators Attached to 1 Server

I ran into a situation today where I had two load evaluators assigned to the same server.  No amount of reconfiguration through the CMC would get things back to normal.  To solve this problem I ended up checking and ultimately repairing the Citrix data store.

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Front End Exchange Server Circular Logging

Essentially if you do not have any user mailboxes stores or public folder stores on an Exchange server that is operating as a front end server, then you can safely enable circular logging.  This will reduce the disk space requirements for the front end server. 

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